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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My charter surveyed families this week if they'd prefer online learning through the 29th or through the planned end of year.[/quote]

That would be nice. I don't think our school did this[/quote]

I can also understand why a school would NOT do this.  Once people give their input/opinion, they can often be really salty when it isn't followed.  [/quote]

That is a bad reason not to seek out input when input would help weigh the decision making.

We are years from DCI but I am impressed hearing this is their approach. [/quote]

but seriously: what would a school administration do if they hear back and there is no clear "winning" direction?  what if it's a 50/50 split?  what if all the UMC families want it to stop, but higher needs, lower income families need all the distance learning days a school can provide?  or vice versa? How do they juggle all of these data points and make a decision without all of the families whose perspective was not the one agreed to feeling slighted/not listened to?

In my personal and professional experience, if you ask people for their input and opinion and then don't go that way, you end up with a lot of upset people. [/quote]

Totally disagree.  So school leaders should do whatever they want without input from families, their needs, what would work for them and what would not?

You can’t please everyone but you can get a sense of what the majority would agree or want and this can influence your decision moving forward to best meet those needs.

It’s not a economic class division of lower or middle class sum game.  So for those who justify their school’s failing in not getting input from families as a class war is nonesense.  We see thru it.  You can easily reach the majority of families like our school does thru email and phone text links.

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